Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bob Lanning <> | Subject | Re: Console driver problem ? | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 1996 16:33:29 -0700 (PDT) |
| |
---- As written by Michael Driscoll: > > >I've just discovered a small problem I'm having with the console and > >Linux 2.0. > > > >Problem description: > >While using VC1 (ALT-F1 on my computer), the driver seems to miss some > >caracters (even when typing very slowly so it's not a typing overload :-) ) > >Sometimes caracters do not appear on the screen when I type then, instead > >I hear a beep. This is even with a just-rebooted system. It happends ONLY > >with VC1, not VC2,3,4 or whatever, and X11 works perfectly. > > I seem to remember that somebody else on the list was having trouble with > exactly the same symptoms as this when they were starting programs with > inittab in the following manner: > > top > /dev/tty6 > > ie. run top on VC6. The solution was to use the program "open" for this > purpose. Are you starting any programs in this way that might be soaking > up characters from your STDIN on VC1? > Mike Driscoll > <fenris@lightspeed.net>
If this is true then it is because stdin and stderr are still on the boot console.
top < /dev/tty6 > /dev/tty6 2> /dev/tty6
-- Robert Hajime Lanning "It's the FROSTING!" The opinions expressed here are not mine, nor are they anyone else's. lanning@tidbit.fhda.edu <--for fun && for profit--> lanning@navtech.com
|  |